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- Named for the famous educator Booker T. Washington, the school opened in September 1924 under the auspices of the Atlanta Board of Education, with the late Charles Lincoln Harper as principal. It was the first public high school for African-Americans in the state of Georgia and the Atlanta Public Schools system.
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Learn about the history, academics, and achievements of the first public high school for African-Americans in Georgia. The school is named after Booker T. Washington, a famous educator and leader, and has four small schools with different themes.
- Public Schooling For African Americans in Georgia
- The First Schools in Atlanta For African American Children
- The First Public High School For African American Children in Georgia
- Legacies
- Contemporary Challenges
- Selected References
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In 1829, the State of Georgia followed patterns across the slaveholding south and passed a law that made it a crime to teach enslaved persons to read. A parallel situation was that free African Americans in the state were also discouraged from learning to read and write. Whites who were found guilty of teaching Black people could be fined or impris...
In the City of Atlanta, as the Civil War was drawing to a close, two literate African Americans, James Tate, who came to Atlanta from Elbert County, Georgia, in the 1860s [see also Building Memories episode on Friendship Baptist Church], and Grandison B. Daniels (who may have moved to Atlanta during this time from North Carolina), established the f...
Booker T. Washington High School(BTW) was the first public high school in the State of Georgia for African American students and remained the only one in the City of Atlanta until 1947. The doors opened in September 1924, with Charles Lincoln Harper serving as the first principal. BTW served as a point of great pride and a beacon of hope for Africa...
The Booker T. Washington Alumni Association
Over almost one hundred years, BTW has graduated thousands of students. They formed the Booker T. Washington Alumni Associationmore than half a century ago, and it continues to be one of the largest and most involved alumni associations in the Atlanta Public School System. Among the most famous alums is Martin Luther King, Jr. for his courageous leadership of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, but the list of high performers is long across all arenas, from music (for example, multiple award-wi...
Today, Booker T. Washington High School exists amid an array of challenges in Westside communities that are typical for historic urban spaces that are now undergoing incredible and often traumatic change. The communities face many needs, from the need for affordable housing for a broader range of long-time residents, to job training opportunities f...
“African American Records: Freedmen’s Bureau.” National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau. 14 September 2018. Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. “APS History.” Atlanta Public Schools. https://www.atlantapublicschools....
Authors:Jacqueline Jones Royster, Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, with Charles Cardot, Building Memories Intern Building Memories Project Team: 1. Jacqueline Jones Royster, Executive Producer 2. Steve Hodges, Project Manager 3. Gene Kansas, Co-producer, Building Memories Podcast 4. Stephen Key, Co-producer, Building Memories Podcast 5. In...
This tuition charge prevented a large number of black students who completed elementary school from getting a high school education. The opening of Booker T. Washington High School was the culmination of several attempts on the part of black leaders who had unsuccessfully lobbied for bond funds to construct a high school building to educate ...
Booker T. Washington High School, named for the famous educator, and built because there was no secondary education available to Blacks in the city of Atlanta, began operation in 1924. In 1925, the only exact replica of the Booker T. Washington Monument at Tuskegee, Alabama was erected at the school’s entrance.
Learn about the history and legacy of Booker T. Washington High School in Rocky Mount, NC, one of the sixteen black schools invited to participate in the Rockefeller Foundation's experimental program to improve education in the 1940s. Explore oral histories, documents, and photos of the school's academic, social, and community life.
Booker T. Washington High School, named for the famous educator, opened in September 1924 under the auspices of the Atlanta Board of Education, with the late Charles Lincoln Harper as principal. It is the first public high school for African- Americans in the state of Georgia and the Atlanta Public Schools.
Opened in 1924, Booker T. Washington High School was the first high school for African American students in Atlanta. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the school boasts such notable graduates as Lena Horne and Martin Luther King Jr. Renovations on the school began in 2004.
